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akshat sharma

Dubai. Engineer and developer advocate in the Solana ecosystem since 2021.

developer tooling

  • usdc-deposit-watcher

    Real-time USDC deposit detection on Helius LaserStream with exactly-once crediting.

  • soon-migrate

    A Rust CLI for teams moving programs from Solana to SOON. It handles config rewrites, oracle dependency checks, dry runs, and backup and restore.

  • SOON Snippets

    A VS Code extension with SOON network commands and Rust snippets for Anchor and native programs.

talks and workshops

  • solana hacker house bengaluru

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    jul 2024

    A workshop on cross-chain development with Wormhole.

  • solana hacker house

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    2023

    A Wormhole workshop at Solana Hacker House.

  • SOON workshops and events

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    2024

    Talks and public workshops across the Middle East and Southeast Asia, including a Devcon week side event and panel in Bangkok in November.

  • hackathon mentor

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    Mentored at ETHGlobal Sydney, Unfold and a SOON hackathon.

writing and tutorials

  • SOON documentation

    Documentation for SOON, including an introduction to its network and stack.

  • WTF is DA? The SOON story

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    A breakdown of data availability in SOON's L2 architecture.

  • solana's gulf stream

    A look at Gulf Stream and how Solana forwards transactions.

  • start on wormhole

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    retired

    A getting-started site for developers new to Wormhole.

  • wormhole foundation fellowship

    jul 2023 – apr 2024

    Docs, tutorials and workshops during the Wormhole Foundation fellowship.

open source

  • agentphone

    Merged fixes in the YC-backed AgentPhone MCP server for null API responses and webhook delivery history.

  • paradev

    A merged fix in YC-backed Paradev for check runs that fail to start.

  • elizaOS

    A merged fix for Signal route setup.

  • wormhole and solana pay

    Small docs fixes in Wormhole's TypeScript SDK and Solana Pay.

demos

  • atom

    A local grounding runtime that turns screenshots into click coordinates on Apple silicon.

  • ranger

    An agent that takes a customer problem to a reviewed plan and tested code in a Linux VM.